Formal charges have not yet been filed, but detectives with the Lafayette Police Department requested a search warrant through Tippecanoe Superior Court 6 to access media devices, cellphones, cameras, computers, video game systems, thumb drives and other items belonging to Griffin.

Investigators were able to recover more than 300 images, which had been deleted, from Griffin's cellphone, according to a probable cause affidavit filed Wednesday in Superior Court 6. They allegedly were pictures of young girls, including the suspected victim.

Capt. Kurt Wolf, commander of LPD's detectives division, said Thursday that police learned about the allegations on Feb. 19. The girl is now 16 years old, but she described the sexual acts as ongoing from age 10 or 11.

Detectives are working with the Tippecanoe County prosecutor's office on the investigation, Wolf said.

According to the affidavit, the girl described at least eight incidents where Griffin touched her inappropriately.

The girl described how Griffin gave her 13-year-old sister a shower clock-radio and how Griffin yelled at them for removing it from the shower, despite it not working properly.

After learning about the alleged molestation, the girl's mother checked the clock-radio and discovered that it had several additional parts glued to it - including what appeared to be a camera inside it.

The girl told investigators that Griffin also left his cellphone, which was locked in record mode, in her bedroom.

Detectives, who interviewed Griffin on Tuesday, said he made incriminating statements that matched the 16-year-old's accusations.

- Sophia Voravong/svoravong@jconline.com

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Lafayette man held in sex case

A Lafayette man is suspected of performing sexual acts on a young girl in his care and of recording the girl and her younger sister in the bathroom, court documents allege.